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The technology to prevent wildfires is ... to remove the 90% of the trees. The state needs to liquidate 90% of its forests ASAP

(Rolling eyes).

Seriously, this is getting ridiculous. This tunnel vision is defeatening. Enough is enough.

This is like claiming that the solution to remove computer bugs is to smash the computer against the floor. See?. No bugs survived.

And now the myth of the good savage.

I don't think that what (maybe) worked for a population of, lets say, 20.000 Ohlone Indians with bronze age tools will be scalable to solve the problems of the entire LA population. Do you think that we have the same complexity of problems, same longevity, or that we use the land in the same way that indians did?

We have better tools now. Ecology, science, knowledge based in facts, satellites without turtles added, scientific police. Maybe we just could try to use it instead?




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